TimeRefine: Temporal Grounding with Time Refining Video LLM

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Hauptverfasser: Wang, Xizi, Cheng, Feng, Wang, Ziyang, Wang, Huiyu, Islam, Md Mohaiminul, Torresani, Lorenzo, Bansal, Mohit, Bertasius, Gedas, Crandall, David
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author Wang, Xizi
Cheng, Feng
Wang, Ziyang
Wang, Huiyu
Islam, Md Mohaiminul
Torresani, Lorenzo
Bansal, Mohit
Bertasius, Gedas
Crandall, David
author_facet Wang, Xizi
Cheng, Feng
Wang, Ziyang
Wang, Huiyu
Islam, Md Mohaiminul
Torresani, Lorenzo
Bansal, Mohit
Bertasius, Gedas
Crandall, David
contents Video temporal grounding aims to localize relevant temporal boundaries in a video given a textual prompt. Recent work has focused on enabling Video LLMs to perform video temporal grounding via next-token prediction of temporal timestamps. However, accurately localizing timestamps in videos remains challenging for Video LLMs when relying solely on temporal token prediction. Our proposed TimeRefine addresses this challenge in two ways. First, instead of directly predicting the start and end timestamps, we reformulate the temporal grounding task as a temporal refining task: the model first makes rough predictions and then refines them by predicting offsets to the target segment. This refining process is repeated multiple times, through which the model progressively self-improves its temporal localization accuracy. Second, to enhance the model's temporal perception capabilities, we incorporate an auxiliary prediction head that penalizes the model more if a predicted segment deviates further from the ground truth, thus encouraging the model to make closer and more accurate predictions. Our plug-and-play method can be integrated into most LLM-based temporal grounding approaches. The experimental results demonstrate that TimeRefine achieves 3.6% and 5.0% mIoU improvements on the ActivityNet and Charades-STA datasets, respectively. Code and pretrained models will be released.
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spellingShingle TimeRefine: Temporal Grounding with Time Refining Video LLM
Wang, Xizi
Cheng, Feng
Wang, Ziyang
Wang, Huiyu
Islam, Md Mohaiminul
Torresani, Lorenzo
Bansal, Mohit
Bertasius, Gedas
Crandall, David
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Video temporal grounding aims to localize relevant temporal boundaries in a video given a textual prompt. Recent work has focused on enabling Video LLMs to perform video temporal grounding via next-token prediction of temporal timestamps. However, accurately localizing timestamps in videos remains challenging for Video LLMs when relying solely on temporal token prediction. Our proposed TimeRefine addresses this challenge in two ways. First, instead of directly predicting the start and end timestamps, we reformulate the temporal grounding task as a temporal refining task: the model first makes rough predictions and then refines them by predicting offsets to the target segment. This refining process is repeated multiple times, through which the model progressively self-improves its temporal localization accuracy. Second, to enhance the model's temporal perception capabilities, we incorporate an auxiliary prediction head that penalizes the model more if a predicted segment deviates further from the ground truth, thus encouraging the model to make closer and more accurate predictions. Our plug-and-play method can be integrated into most LLM-based temporal grounding approaches. The experimental results demonstrate that TimeRefine achieves 3.6% and 5.0% mIoU improvements on the ActivityNet and Charades-STA datasets, respectively. Code and pretrained models will be released.
title TimeRefine: Temporal Grounding with Time Refining Video LLM
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.09601